So Cute!! "Dr." Cassidy, Facing 2 Dead, 350+ Confirmed Pertussis Cases In LA, Urges Kennedy To Publicly Support Vaccine

[hatrack]

NEW ORLEANS — Senator Bill Cassidy is calling on the Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK, Jr., to make a public statement in support of the vaccine for whooping cough. This comes as Louisiana is having the worst outbreak of the deadly respiratory infection in decades, which has already taken the lives of two babies.

Videos from the past of children with whooping cough show just how serious the infection can be. Already, two children in Louisiana have died this year, with 368 cases reported, compared to the average of only 77 cases. LSU Health infectious disease specialist Dr. Fred Lopez says this is the worst outbreak in the state in 35 years. And there is a vaccine to prevent this.

“I think there's been a lot of misinformation about vaccines in general, and I think it's spilled over to vaccines that we've had available for decades, that have been safe and quite effective,” said Dr. Lopez.

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Senator Cassidy's office says they have not heard back yet from RFK, Jr., about giving a public endorsement of the whooping cough vaccine.

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https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/senator-cassidy-urges-rfk-jr-to-support-whooping-cough-vaccine-amid-deadly-louisiana-outbreak-vax-illness-politics-vaccination/289-aed4b4ef-001b-4314-94bb-72f5a9fc1dc6

[bucolic_frolic]

1. You must accept what knowledge doctors have to help you

and this is one of those times. I didn't know there was a vax for whooping cough.

[hatrack]

2. Oh, yeah - first vaccines go back to the late 1940s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPT_vaccine

[applegrove]

7. My grandmother had pertussis when she was a young

mom in the 1930s and lost an eye.

[mountain grammy]

4. that's probably because it's been around for so long nobody gets sick anymore

my sons, both in their 50's got DPT vaccines as babies.. before they were a year old.

Diphtheria, Pertussis (whooping cough) and typhoid not on our radar until now.

At 77 I'm beginning to feel like I've lived too long.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Senator Cassidy, you and your constituents have to live with what you voted for.

Maybe you should have considered that BEFORE you cast your vote to confirm this crank to be in charge of our country's healthcare.

"Measure twice, cut once" beats "Move fast and break shit" every time.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes so cute when a doctor and senator pretends to a doctor and senator.

Like he really cares about Americans and their health.
And that he actually has some power.

[lark]

6. Killing people is his game, saving lives is the opposite of what he's purposefully doing.